Wad Madani Resistance Committee, a Sudanese pro-democracy group, says paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) k*lled more than 124 people on 25 October in the Al Jazirah state. A UN official compared the RSF’s actions to the group’s 2023 campaign in Darfur, where they were accused of ethnically cleansing communities opposed to them. Many Sudanese activists say the massacre was revenge for RSF commander Abuagla Keikal defecting to the Sudanese army, bringing his soldiers along.
Additionally, Sudan’s Combating Violence Against Women Unit, a government body, has documented accounts of RSF soldiers r*ping women in Al Jazirah villages to intimidate men and force residents to flee. Tragic reports have emerged of women committing su*cide en masse, including through drowning, to escape the dire possibility, with one activist estimating about 130 such cases.
The ongoing 18-month war between the UAE-supported RSF and Sudan’s army has displaced over 8 million people and k*lled more than 150,000 as of May, according to the US envoy. The UN’s food agency has warned that without urgent humanitarian intervention, 13 million face ‘acute hunger.’
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News of mass killings
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/at-least-124-killed-after-sudans-rsf-attack-village-activists-say
Set on fire and Darfur comparison
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/10/1156176
Reports of rapes
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/at-least-124-killed-after-sudans-rsf-attack-village-activists-say
Reports of suicides
https://x.com/tastefullysaucy/status/1850660055118672313
https://x.com/BSonblast/status/1849924239253700680
https://x.com/azhaarSholgami/status/1850608232412397963
Sudan killed and displaced
https://sudan.iom.int/news/sudan-internal-displacement-set-top-10-million-famine-looms-iom
UN warning hundreds of thousands could starve
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/10/1156176